WASHINGTON  President Barack Obama called the increasingly tense environment in the Mideast "unsustainable" Wednesday and said Israel needs a "better approach" in blockaded Gaza that would satisfy security and humanitarian needs.

Turning his attention to the troubled region as he welcomed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to the White House for talks, Obama also predicted "real progress" in coming months in U.S. efforts to nudge the Israelis and Palestinians toward direct peace talks.

The meeting came a little more than a week after Israel's deadly May 31 raid on a flotilla hoping to break the blockade. Nine men in the flotilla were killed, including eight Turks and a Turkish American.

Israel says its soldiers opened fire only after they were mobbed by pro-Palestinian activists. The activists and their supporters say Israel's commandos began shooting unnecessarily.

When you have a weird anti-American view of the situation, a view found in the minds of leftists around the world, then yes it might look unsustainable. But probably it’s nothing more than your own warped world view.

Sort of like how socialism and tyranny looks to Americans.

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posted on 06/09/2010 1:05:19 PM PDT
by Tarpon
(Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)

Maybe he can get Abbas to hire Helen Thomas to do PR for the Palestinians.

Oh, wait, she has been for how many years now? I lost track.

US President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC. Obama said Wednesday he believed "significant progress" was possible in the Middle East peace process this year, adding the US was to unveil a huge aid package for the Palestinians. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)

George Washington was right. It is best to avoid foreign entanglements and treat all with dignity... or sumthin'.

I suspect the “situation” here at home is FAR more unsustainable than the 2000 years of Mid-East conflict between the Jews and Arabs. But this nitwit could’nt pour water out of a boot if there was instructions on the heel!!

Good let the Israelis go Roman on them, conquer and either have them accept rule or GTFO. There will be no promise of any return of anything. The history of human civilization is replete with one superior culture and society conquering the other. Islam is an inferior , backward religion and culture and needs to be eradicated thrugh the successful prosecution of wars or assimilation. That means no more warbling, cultist yodeling from prayer towers, no more tolerance for shariah law. Want to practice devil worship do it in the shadows vermin. We know the scam.

"WASHINGTON  President Barack Obama called the increasingly tense environment in the Mideast "unsustainable" Wednesday and said Israel needs a "better approach" in blockaded Gaza that would satisfy security and humanitarian needs."

Spoken like to true academic with no real solution.

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posted on 06/09/2010 1:23:07 PM PDT
by Dem Guard
("Throw the trash out November 2nd!")

Obama hasn't a clue. He has made it crystal clear that he expects Israel to commit national suicide. That won't happen.

I believe that many Americans are waking up to the harsh reality that Israel is a democracy besieged by openly hostile neighbors that fully intend to kill or drive out every Jew in Israel...just because they're Jews. Then 're-claim' Israel, the tiny piece of sand that has been the Jewish homeland for decades. That doesn't sit well with decent, reasonable people, which is what most Americans are.

The usual U.S. demand that 'Israel must do more' and the phony posing of "Palestinians' as 'oppressed' and the decades-long lie that 'their' nation is being 'occupied' by Israelis is still used but fewer and fewer Americans buy it, these days.

Unfortunately, with global anti-antisemitism on the rise and a U.S. president that sides with the Muslims every time, Israel is being pushed into a hard-core defensive posture out of necessity, as the U.S. is weakening their support. The result could be a catastrophic nuclear war in the middle east but even without that horror, there will be war in that region and I don't expect the Obama administration will do much except declare our 'regret' and demand that Israel cave in to the Muslim loons that fully intend to destroy Israel and never tire of saying so.

Nothing has changed in over six decades. Trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East is a waste of time. If any leader on the terrorist side made a real attempt at peace, they would be ousted or murdered.

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